{"id":30016,"date":"2022-02-04T22:30:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T22:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=30016"},"modified":"2022-02-04T14:45:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:45:44","slug":"gov-extend-uk-online-safety-bill-via-new-list-of-criminal-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/gov-extend-uk-online-safety-bill-via-new-list-of-criminal-content.html","title":{"rendered":"Gov Extend UK Online Safety Bill via New List of Criminal Content"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Government’s new Online Safety Bill<\/a> (OSB), which tasks Ofcom<\/a> with tackling “harmful<\/em>” content online through website bans, fines and other sanctions, has today extended the legislation via a new list of “criminal content<\/em>” (e.g. online drug and weapons dealing, people smuggling, revenge porn, fraud etc.) for tech firms to remove as a priority.<\/p>\n

A lot of online content today is governed by a somewhat self-regulatory approach, which has struggled to keep pace. Various examples exist for \u201charmful<\/em>\u201d content, such as the rise of the ISIS terrorist group, as well as propaganda from hostile countries, online bullying and the spread of COVID-19 related conspiracy theories etc. Social media firms usually do catch-up, but they\u2019re often late to the party.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Companies that fail to comply with the new law could face fines of up to \u00a318m, or 10% of their annual global turnover, whichever is highest. But it\u2019s unclear how this might apply to smaller sites.<\/div>\n

Previously the bill would have forced internet content providers (e.g. social media sites, video-sharing platforms and search engines) to take such content down after it had been reported to them by users, but today’s changes mean that content falling under the ‘Priority Illegal Offences<\/strong>‘ category must be proactively removed to “prevent people being exposed in the first place.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

However, balancing all of this against complex issues of context (e.g. people joking about blowing up a city in a video game vs actual terrorists), parody, the application of the rules to non-UK sites, political speech and the risk from overzealous automated filtering systems – since manually moderating all content on major platforms would be economically impossible – is a nightmare to get right. It may even be unworkable for smaller sites.<\/p>\n

The big change today is that the Government have extended the new bill by setting out a longer list of “criminal content<\/em>” for “tech firms<\/em>” to “remove as a priority<\/em>“. The priority illegal offences currently listed in the draft bill are terrorism, child sexual abuse and exploitation. But this list just got a lot longer.<\/p>\n

Naming these offences on the face of the bill removes the need for them to be set out in secondary legislation later, and Ofcom<\/a> can take faster enforcement action against tech firms which fail to remove the named illegal content. Luckily most, but perhaps not all, of this is much easier to understand than the grey area of “lawful but still harmful<\/em>” content tackled elsewhere in the OSB.<\/p>\n

The offences will fall in the following categories:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Encouraging or assisting suicide<\/p>\n

Offences relating to sexual images i.e. revenge and extreme pornography<\/p>\n

Incitement to and threats of violence<\/p>\n

Hate crime<\/p>\n

Public order offences – harassment and stalking<\/p>\n

Drug-related offences<\/p>\n

Weapons \/ firearms offences<\/p>\n

Fraud and financial crime<\/p>\n

Money laundering<\/p>\n

Controlling, causing or inciting prostitutes for gain<\/p>\n

Organised immigration offences<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Government states that, in order to “proactively tackle the priority offences<\/em>“, firms will need to make sure the features, functionalities and algorithms of their services are “designed to prevent their users encountering them<\/em>” and minimise the length of time this content is available. “This could be achieved by automated or human content moderation, banning illegal search terms, spotting suspicious users and having effective systems in place to prevent banned users opening new accounts<\/em>,” said the announcement.<\/p>\n

Three new criminal offences, recommended by the Law Commission, will also be added to the bill to tackle domestic violence, as well as threats to rape and kill. We should clarify that the draft OSB is focussed on the regulation of online platforms, while the new criminal offences will apply to individuals. Crucially, online platforms will need to take account of context when considering how to moderate such content – easier said than done (sometimes context only becomes clear when you look across content from several platforms for the same users).<\/p>\n

The new offences will capture a wider range of harms in different types of private and public online communication methods. These include harmful and abusive emails, social media posts and WhatsApp messages, as well as \u2018pile-on\u2019 harassment where many people target abuse at an individual, such as in website comment sections. None of the offences will apply to regulated media such as print and online journalism, TV, radio and film.<\/p>\n

The Three New Offences<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u27a4 A \u2018genuinely threatening\u2019 communications offence, where communications are sent or posted to convey a threat of serious harm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This offence is designed to better capture online threats to rape, kill and inflict physical violence or cause people serious financial harm. It addresses limitations with the existing laws which capture \u2018menacing\u2019 aspects of the threatening communication but not genuine and serious threatening behaviour.<\/p>\n

It will offer better protection for public figures such as MPs, celebrities or footballers who receive extremely harmful messages threatening their safety. It will address coercive and controlling online behaviour and stalking, including, in the context of domestic abuse, threats related to a partner\u2019s finances or threats concerning physical harm.<\/p>\n

\u27a4 A harm-based communications offence to capture communications sent to cause harm without a reasonable excuse.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This offence will make it easier to prosecute online abusers by abandoning the requirement under the old offences for content to fit within proscribed yet ambiguous categories such as \u201cgrossly offensive,\u201d \u201cobscene\u201d or \u201cindecent\u201d. Instead it is based on the intended psychological harm, amounting to at least serious distress, to the person who receives the communication, rather than requiring proof that harm was caused. The new offences will address the technical limitations of the old offences and ensure that harmful communications posted to a likely audience are captured.<\/p>\n

The new offence will consider the context in which the communication was sent. This will better address forms of violence against women and girls, such as communications which may not seem obviously harmful but when looked at in light of a pattern of abuse could cause serious distress. For example, in the instance where a survivor of domestic abuse has fled to a secret location and the abuser sends the individual a picture of their front door or street sign.<\/p>\n

It will better protect people\u2019s right to free expression online. Communications that are offensive but not harmful and communications sent with no intention to cause harm, such as consensual communication between adults, will not be captured. It will have to be proven in court that a defendant sent a communication without any reasonable excuse and did so intending to cause serious distress or worse, with exemptions for communication which contributes to a matter of public interest.<\/p>\n

\u27a4 An offence for when a person sends a communication they know to be false with the intention to cause non-trivial emotional, psychological or physical harm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although there is an existing offence in the Communications Act that captures knowingly false communications, this new offence raises the current threshold of criminality. It covers false communications deliberately sent to inflict harm, such as hoax bomb threats, as opposed to misinformation where people are unaware what they are sending is false or genuinely believe it to be true. For example, if an individual posted on social media encouraging people to inject antiseptic to cure themselves of coronavirus, a court would have to prove that the individual knew this was not true before posting it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The maximum sentences for each offence will differ. If someone is found guilty of a harm based offence they could go to prison for up to 2 years, or up to 51 weeks for the false communication offence and up to 5 years for the threatening communications offence. The maximum sentence was 6 months under the Communications Act<\/strong> and 2 years under the Malicious Communications Act<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The government is also considering the Law Commission\u2019s recommendations for specific offences to be created relating to cyberflashing, encouraging self-harm and epilepsy trolling.<\/p>\n

Nadine Dorries, Digital Secretary, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“This government said it would legislate to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online while enshrining free speech, and that’s exactly what we are going to do. Our world leading bill will protect children from online abuse and harms, protecting the most vulnerable from accessing harmful content, and ensuring there is no safe space for terrorists to hide online.<\/p>\n

We are listening to MPs, charities and campaigners who have wanted us to strengthen the legislation, and today\u2019s changes mean we will be able to bring the full weight of the law against those who use the internet as a weapon to ruin people\u2019s lives and do so quicker and more effectively.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As it stands, the Government faces an incredibly difficult balancing act. On the one hand they need to do more to tackle harmful online content, but on the other they have to avoid the risk of creating a Draconian censorship regime and harming free speech, even though that might not be their intention.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, few could disagree with many of the new offences identified today. But at the same time there’s a huge question mark hanging over the viability of implementing all this and whether Ofcom<\/a>, or the police, have even remotely enough resources to effectively cover the colossal amount of internet content demanded by this law.<\/p>\n

Finally, for those who might be hoping that the OSB solves what some view as “the Facebook problem<\/em>” (replace Facebook with Twitter etc. if you must). Just remember, if you impose a heavy regulatory model that treats all websites and internet content services as if they were the same size and have the same resources as Facebook, then all you do is destroy everything that isn’t Facebook. The result is more Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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